If you've never heard of her, you're not alone. Enheduanna was unknown to modernity altogether until 1927, when the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley excavated objects that bear her name. We now know that her name, in Sumerian, means "Ornament of Heaven", and as the high priestess of the moon deity Nanna-Suen, she composed 42 temple hymns and three stand-alone poems that, like the Epic of Gilgamesh (which is not credited to a named author), scholars consider an important part of Mesopotamia's literary legacy."
​Quoted in BBC.com

Great queen of queens, issue of a holy womb for righteous powers, greater than your own mother, wise and sage, lady of all the foreign lands, life-force of the teeming people: I will recite your holy song! True goddess fit for divine powers, your splendid utterances are magnificent. Deep-hearted, good woman with a radiant heart, I will enumerate your divine powers for you!

Enheduana the en priestess, entered my holy jipar in your service. I carried the ritual basket, and intoned the song of joy. But funeral offerings we brought, as if I had never lived there. A approached the light, but the light was scorching hot to me. I approached that shade, but I was covered with the storm. My honeyed mouth became venomous. My ability to soothe moods vanished."

Quoted in: The exaltation of Inana (Inana B): translation (ox.ac.uk)

Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Her medium, whether a T-shirt, plaque, or LED sign, is writing, and the public dimension is integral to her work. Starting in the 1970s with her New York City street posters and continuing through her light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor and kindness."
​Quoted from Biography at Holzer website

826 National amplifies the impact of our national network of youth writing and publishing centers, and the words of young authors. We serve as an international proof point for writing as a tool for young people to ignite and channel their creativity, explore identity, advocate for themselves and their community, and achieve academic and professional success."
Quoted in 826 National

Consider this commentary on the pearl as a metaphor for pain and its potential to be changed into something beautiful. Then write a poem in response (exploring your memories of pearls or how they figure in your life) or answer the questions I've supplied below"
Quoted from Richo (2002)

Leonora was a restless voyager through deep journeys, always in quest of mythic revelations. Her aim was to repair a shattered world and a means to live in it, unearthing the many images that came her way. Guided by her intuitive meanderings she came upon the I Ching or Book of Changes, carving beautiful wooden tokens and dwelling on the secret language of hexagrams to reach her own patterns of change. She also took other paths like divination, magic, and meditation, since all developed into components for a complex mental vehicle that became articulated into her own navigational devices, launching her towards a wilderness of mind..."
​Quoted in Carrington, 2022

Maggs Vibo art experiment "Democracy" used at Library of Congress event, 2022

​The ancient Greeks were the first to create a democracy. The word “democracy” comes from two Greek words that mean people (demos) and rule (kratos). Democracy is the idea that the citizens of a country should take an active role in the government of their country and manage it directly or through elected representatives."
​Quoted in Encyclopedic Entry

Alice, by herself, followed the rabbit into a hole that led to the parts of herself that were confusing and scary. Ask yourself if your various partners were meant to be just such rabbits that kindly tried to show you the way into your deepest self, that is, your open heart. Now you are finally willing to enter"
​Richo, 2002 

In the practice of devotion to Avolokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, the initiate begins by honoring the bodhisattva and ends in acknowledging that there is no distinction between them. Indeed, a shrine to a bodhisattva or saint can be seen as a mirror of what we are in our essential nature—that is, our Buddha-nature, Christ consciousness, the breath of God, resembling what Carl Jung called the higher Self. We can also call that the divine heart-center of ourselves. We are mirrored by the divine because our humanity includes divinity that can never be damaged or diminished. This is the spiritual implication of mindlfulness, which can free us from a limiting identification with our ego and awaken us to a richer sense of our oneness and the divine."
Quoted in Richo, 2002, pg. 59